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Bust Rodd
Oct 21, 2008

by VideoGames

Eegah! posted:

The rumbling on donut Twitter is some pedophilia accusation. Which if it’s the same one that went around a few years ago then it’s mostly bullshit. We’ll see I guess.

"Mostly" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here, pal, care to elaborate?

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Bust Rodd
Oct 21, 2008

by VideoGames

Eegah! posted:

Its something that was litigated in this very thread and the old cspam thread.

Ok well it sort of looked like you were saying “Virgil is MOSTLY not a pedofile”

Bust Rodd
Oct 21, 2008

by VideoGames
Internet Oldheads who insist caring about anything or anyone is uncool are still the most exhausting posters in 2020. It’s like the most direct way of communicating to other posters that you suck with trash opinions and your life is bad.

You can be a nihilist without being a poisoned mind slave. Let people develop emotional attachments to the talking heads that make them happy.

Bust Rodd
Oct 21, 2008

by VideoGames

Lambert posted:

Dumb pointless speculation about an internet personality is dumb, sorry you feel attacked by that. If your imagination is running wild about your podcaster friend, keep it to yourself.

Why post in the podcast thread for a show about how posting about the hosts of THIS show upsets you?

PS I’m not sorry you feel attacked, I was literally attacking you and your lovely position.

Bust Rodd
Oct 21, 2008

by VideoGames
If one host of a show goes “we don’t know where our co-host is, he is sending us cryptic videos but won’t talk or respond to any of us and we haven’t seen him in days” live on stream it’s not the fans who are being weird for wondering what happened.

Bust Rodd
Oct 21, 2008

by VideoGames

Shipon posted:

replace virgil with Bust Rodd

:bustem:

The Star Wars episodes have been amazing content but Felix deconstructing 'this is us' had me crying.

Bust Rodd
Oct 21, 2008

by VideoGames

Gripweed posted:

What the gently caress does that mean, "has a problem"? What's the problem? How is it a problem? It's fiction! If the role a planet has to serve in the story is be a desert backdrop or a forest location or whatever, then it's actually completely 100% fine for the entire planet to just be that.

The problem is that individual planets feel like “scenes” instead of like “planets” which shrinks the scales of the narrative. A planet, like Earth, with thousands of cultures and customs and ideas and trade and history has more weight and you feel the loss of something like that, like Alderan getting blown up in ANH. When you just have Tatooine, a desert planet, then the entire planet just feels like Mos Eisley Cantina, because that’s the only significant feature on the entire planet.

This feels like splitting hairs, but it’s fine for something like Ender because it’s specifically a forest ‘Moon’. But you gotta have planets be rich and multi-faceted of they lose their important sense of scale, IMHO.

Bust Rodd
Oct 21, 2008

by VideoGames
One thing they got wrong and I’m very surprised their guest didn’t comment on is the fact that Samuel L. Jackson specifically requested a purple lightsaber so that he could be more easily found on screen by his kids when they were watching the fight scenes.

Bust Rodd
Oct 21, 2008

by VideoGames

FlamingLiberal posted:

Biden's platform is the furthest from what Bernie was advocating so I don't understand the DNC/lanyard types tut-tutting the Zoomers who rightly see this as a failure of the party.

It’s been said a lot but Biden would have had an easier chance pitching the exact same campaign as a Republican trying to primary Trump.

Bust Rodd
Oct 21, 2008

by VideoGames
My mom called me the very second Bernie dropped out, possibly to gloat, I’m not sure, but when she asked me “so now you’re voting for Biden?” and she seemed genuinely surprised at me when I went “no, I’m done with the election, I don’t care about politics anymore because politics does not care about me and Joe Biden represents me and my views on healthcare and immigration and criminal justice reform about as well as Trump does. I don’t think Biden will change the way I live for the better and I don’t think he is appreciably different from Trump on any issue that matters.”

She was positively baffled, but I told her I don’t feel represented at all by either candidate and I’m not gritting my teeth and voting for Hilary again. Biden doesn’t have a single position that engages me, that’s his fault, not mine.

Bust Rodd
Oct 21, 2008

by VideoGames
FYI Reade filed a police report about Biden’s sexual assault. The penalty for knowingly filing a false report is severe, so she’s basically saying “I am so serious about my accusation that I am willing to go to jail over it.” that’s...pretty significant IMO.

Bust Rodd
Oct 21, 2008

by VideoGames
LMAO as a fellow 32 year old... when have the olds ever been right about literally anything? Like during what major world or national event did the people in charge of our country not just lie directly to our faces about what was going on in a provable way?

Bust Rodd
Oct 21, 2008

by VideoGames

thotsky posted:

Sure, politics are changing, but I don't think one can conclude that there is progress. Maybe people like Bernie is just a part of the of the mschine we call late capitalism / capitalism with asian characteristics. Maybe he, and the squad, is like Putin's opposition. It's hard to point to any meaningful victories for the left during the last 30 years; capitalism is seemingly in crisis like never before, but there has been no great left awareness. A left answer to the issues we face, if it has been formulated, is not really being presented to the populace.

LoL no, when an alternative is presented to the populace then the machine just cheats and consumes them and spits them out and it becomes clear that we would never have been given that choice no matter what. A team of fewer than a percent of a percent of the population have ensured that only the rich make decisions, and the overwhelmingly poor population of this country cannot hope to win a violent revolution against an army of stealth killer robots that can tactically SCUD you from 15 miles, higher and further away than the naked eye can see.

Bust Rodd
Oct 21, 2008

by VideoGames

AnEdgelord posted:

The idea that the US military could obliterate any domestic insurgency is itself propaganda that is spread specifically to discourage one starting.

"It could happen here" is a decent podcast that has its problems but it does layout very convincingly how an domestic insurgency would function and how hard it would be to actually root out once it got started.

I’m not sure how many Iraqis, Iranians, Or Afghannis think their sister’s wedding getting blown up from sub-orbital space would consider it Propaganda.

It’s also important to remember that the particular insurgency matters. A bunch of socialist radicals like MOVE in Philly? Firebombed with recycled payloads from the Philly PD evidence locker, an entire city block of brown and black people (and their kids) razed.

Or you have the White Suprmemacist good ol’ boys in Oregon harboring republican lawmakers who refuse to vote and annexing herdlands to their farms with no legal backing and literally getting into armed shoot outs with feds and NOTHING LITERALLY NOTHING happens to any of them.

If you haven’t seen it yet, the HBO Watchmen series is all about a white supremacist insurgency in Okhlahoma. It’s a direct sequel to the Alan Moore book, completely ignores the Zak Snyder film, and I think it does an incredible job illustrating how deep insurgencies go. TLDR: they only work if you have people on the inside. Bernie doesn’t have anyone on the inside.

Bust Rodd
Oct 21, 2008

by VideoGames
Whatever I thought it was awesome and had a really great weekend binging it, but I understand that deep dives into anachronistic CHUD punching aren't for everyone. Extremely "Wolfenstein x Marvel" energy


Don't drag this stupid meme in here please.

Bust Rodd
Oct 21, 2008

by VideoGames
This is Sus and the Star Wars episodes have been excellent content. Matt Chrissman slowly shrinking into an irritable corncob has been less than enjoyable. I like his points and his intelligence but his character on the show is irksome and he is like King Interuptus from the land of “Never let anyone else get a punchline in”

Bust Rodd
Oct 21, 2008

by VideoGames
The media is jealous of Chapo because all of their production value and exploding jet eagles and chyrons failed to engender any kind of emotional response that’s even one tenth of the humanity and relatability of a bunch of misfit academics just loving around in their apartments. They became a voice of movement simply by saying out loud what other people wanted instead trying to tell people what they wanted, and the media can not afford to let things change that way.

Bust Rodd
Oct 21, 2008

by VideoGames
Felix’s sister is a great addition but content wise they are the same, and I only started listening to Chapo for Felix and Virgil in the first place so its more or less exactly the content I crave. Amber was doing mostly Bernie stuff and wasn’t in like the first 5 episodes I listened to. Matt bugs me but is so well read I still listen.

I literally forget Will is on the show whenever he is not speaking. I cannot ascribe any form of personality to him, he just seems like every single dude who bought weed from me at UPenn who would take two puffs at a party and sit quietly in the corner until his girlfriend or boyfriend was ready to leave the party.

Bust Rodd
Oct 21, 2008

by VideoGames

*Mega Man kills me and takes my power*

“Ok let me just...B...Bust Cannon? That sounds weird maybe it’s a... OH GOD OH MY GOD NO, WHY? Good LORD it’s EVERYWHERE NOOOOO!”

Bust Rodd
Oct 21, 2008

by VideoGames
The Live Episode Chapo did with True Anon was pretty funny but both of those people have such insanely grating voices I cannot fathom how they’ve made their voices into careers.

Bust Rodd
Oct 21, 2008

by VideoGames
Yeah I agree with the red haired lady, but unironically DO think we should harvest the wealthy to consume both their wealth but also their precious bone marrow, for the rejuvenative properties and super-human strength it promises.

Bust Rodd
Oct 21, 2008

by VideoGames

MonsieurChoc posted:

There's a C-SPAM thread? I thought it got nuked a long time ago.

Without looking I’m gonna guess it’s all the weird dudes from D&D with old white Slavic dudes in their avatars constantly trying flex over who the most socialist of them all is

Bust Rodd
Oct 21, 2008

by VideoGames
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha “shut the gently caress up about Cum Town” ha ha ha lmao

Bust Rodd
Oct 21, 2008

by VideoGames
It’s weird to see Chapo fans act so virulently opposed to Cum Town when a third of Chapo are like close, personal friends with Nick & Adam

Bust Rodd
Oct 21, 2008

by VideoGames

Halloween Jack posted:

Why does Will think being Biden's VP would be some kind of punishment for Warren and her supporters? She's a soulless careerist, and her supporters are a couple notches less crazy than the KHive people. They'd be yass kweening every corporate bailout.

He’s specifically addressing the toxic 3rd wave feminists who developed a swollen death cult around her, it would nuke their brains and make Twitter unusable for a few days, which is a good thing.

Bust Rodd
Oct 21, 2008

by VideoGames

Halloween Jack posted:

Is Warren's death cult less TERFy than Harris'?

It honestly depends on whether or not Charlotte Clymer is the main tweet or in the comments

Bust Rodd
Oct 21, 2008

by VideoGames
https://twitter.com/palmaunllmited/status/1253008510121414657?s=21

Basically Twitter’s main character today is someone who thinks Amber & Virgil were brought on to mind meld socialist hipsters into neo-fascists, and she is getting roasted like I have never seen.

Bust Rodd
Oct 21, 2008

by VideoGames

Shipon posted:

gwen feasts on the chapo set roasting her, don't give her the loving attention she's clearly an insane grifter who's mad her patreon went nowhere

i know, it's tough. bad posters need to be laughed at


https://twitter.com/krilltusk/status/1253023783620927489?s=21

Bust Rodd
Oct 21, 2008

by VideoGames
What is the actual argument people make for Chapo tanking Bernie’s campaign and how can anyone take it seriously?

Bust Rodd
Oct 21, 2008

by VideoGames
I’ve been googling around for the last 20 minutes and I cannot figure out what in Red Scare is Fasc-adjacent

Bust Rodd
Oct 21, 2008

by VideoGames
Accusing Chapo of ableism seems so weird considering Matt is literally physically disabled

Bust Rodd
Oct 21, 2008

by VideoGames
It’s pretty funny when people lob “intersectionality” out there, a completely bullshit phrase that no two leftists can agree on a definition of and that doesn’t really convey any of the ideas it was crafted for, because it’s a smokescreen intended to obfuscate the reality that all IDPol bullshit is designed by the elite to keep the poors cannibalising ourselves. Younger kids join the conversation digitally before they have any understanding of class solidarity and they believe their personal identity is a more important battleground. It sucks so bad because it’s working lmao

Bust Rodd fucked around with this message at 13:26 on Apr 23, 2020

Bust Rodd
Oct 21, 2008

by VideoGames
Maybe don’t take try and take someone’s trauma more personally than they do?

Bust Rodd
Oct 21, 2008

by VideoGames
It was honestly worth it for True Anon to drag all her hosed up laundry out into the daylight, that makes it like 100% funnier

Bust Rodd
Oct 21, 2008

by VideoGames
https://twitter.com/sethyefrican/status/1253339546181197826?s=21

Here’s a pretty good dunk on our favorite lady, this one made me laugh so hard my roommates dogs woke up lmao

Bust Rodd
Oct 21, 2008

by VideoGames
You know how when you’re at a party and you meet a 30 year old and they are “no I don’t drink, I’ve never had a drink in my whole life.” you might not think they were weird or off-color per se’ but you’d definitely walk away wondering what happened to them or what experiences lead them to never having even tried it?

That’s pretty much exactly how I would feel if I ever met an adult virgin IRL. No disrespect, but surely you can recognize that it’s abnormal enough to be noteworthy.

Then again it’s 2020, if you just claimed to be ACE/ARO I’m quite sure I wouldn’t give it a 2nd thought, that’s an totally normal position now. But if you’re actually TRYING to get laid and it’s just never fired at age 30... that’s when it becomes remarkable.

Bust Rodd
Oct 21, 2008

by VideoGames
I also didn’t call you or anyone brain-diseased, I just remarked that mid-late adult virgins are uncommon but since more and more people openly identify as Asexual or Aromantic that it’s probably easier to just go that route and say that instead of ^^^^whatever the gently caress that poo poo is^^^^

I think it’s worth pointing out that using the term “sexworthy” is extremely r/incel straight from the pages of reddit and does speak to a weird view. It’s right up there with calling women “females”. You say you don’t feel entitled too it but also seem to view it as a demarcation of your worth?

We have Catholics here in the US, a deeply anti-sex moralistic culture, and those people gently caress constantly.

Edit: this episode sounds very fun I wish it wasn’t paywalled. Do they ever release their patreon stuff later?

Bust Rodd
Oct 21, 2008

by VideoGames
I just don’t want to fund Felix’s problematic gaming & firearms habits

Bust Rodd
Oct 21, 2008

by VideoGames
The entire world is basically being forced to live as though they are poor and struggle with mental health issues and the seams are showing as typically poor, mentally unwell people continue as normal (since were almost entirely essential service workers!)

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Bust Rodd
Oct 21, 2008

by VideoGames
Xeni Jardin (born Jennifer Hamm) is a 50 year old tech blogger who spent her 30’s microdosing at political rallies trying to get invited to after parties and changed her name to the culturally appropriative Xeni Jardin and speaks in 90’s ebonics that she made up to not seem like the Ur-Karen that she is. She sucks more than anyone who has ever been posted in this thread and would essentially be a bossfight for Brace if he ever encountered her IRL.

She’s been bragging about getting molested by Lemmy from Motörhead all more morning. Also one of the dudes in her thread is this guy, which, like, just lmao


https://twitter.com/wokyleeks/status/1254625744677814278?s=21

and I saw this and spit out some coffee ha ha ha https://twitter.com/xeni/status/1254429262876078080?s=21

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